Donetsk, Aug 19 – DAN. Kiev forces have located military equipment located in close proximity to residential houses at the contact line, the DPR People’s Militia said citing intelligence.

“We have spotted heavy military equipment located in close proximity to residential houses and on the premises of municipal objects in Dzerzhinsk, Kurdyumovka, Kalinovo," the report reads.

In addition, Ukrainian forces continue engineering works at their positions next to the Donetsk water treatment plant (DFS).

The DFS supplies water to both sides of the contact line: DPR-controlled Donetsk, Yasinovataya, the Vasilyevka and Spartak villages, parts of Makeyevka, and Kiev-controlled Avdeyevka, Krasnogorovka and the Verkhnetoretskoye villages. The overall number of its customers exceeds 400 thousand.*ot